KBL sinks Sh4 billion in Kisumu water treatment plan

Kenya Breweries Limited Managing Director Jane Karuku(left) explains how an effluent treatment plant works to Nic Hailey, the British High Commissioner to Kenya (right), during a tour of the KBL Kisumu Brewery on March 27, 2018. The Sh15 billion brewery will churn out the first barrel of Senator keg on July 19. Photo/ Dalton Nyabundi, Standard

Kenya Breweries Limited is sinking nearly Sh4 billion into an effluent treatment plan at its Sh15 billion Kisumu plant to boost production efficiency.

The three-phase wastewater treatment plant is also in line with efforts to set the one million hectoliter per year brewery as an industrial benchmark for the region where several industries have been accused of contributing to the death of Lake Victoria’s Winam Gulf.